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Move over, AI-generated SEO spam — AI-powered news anchors are here. Meet Fedha, an AI-generated news presenter from Kuwait News.

Artificial Intelligence

Media Outlet Shows Off AI-Powered News Presenter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are reportedly taking away work from China-based videogame artists and illustrators.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Putting Videogame Illustrators Out of Work in China

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChaosGPT — that autonomous, open-source AI agent tasked to "destroy humanity" — is still working hard to bring about the end of our species.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Tasked With Destroying Humanity Now Trying New Tactic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Insider has given its reporters the green light to use OpenAI's ChatGPT for its reporting. That green light, however, came with a laundry list of warnings.

Major News Site Warns ChatGPT Is Inaccurate, Announces Plans to Use It Anyway

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a survey conducted by Stanford University, 36 percent of AI researchers believe that AI could cause "nuclear-level catastrophe." Great.

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A Third of Researchers Think that AI Could Cause a Nuclear-Level Catastrophe

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another day, another AI bro looking to defeat death — and almost certainly looking to monetize your grief via AI algorithms in the process.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Guy Changes Mind About Emulating Dead Parents After Watching “Black Mirror” Episode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A user instructed an autonomous AI agent, dubbed ChaosGPT, to destroy humanity. Though the bot gave the mission its darndest, it didn't quite work out.

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Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness AI-assisted — or even AI-propogated — terrorism.

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UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech workers got paid six-figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoard talent.

People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse as Shiny New Toy Appears

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he's worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.

Former Google CEO Warns That Humans Will Fall in Love With AIs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Comedian Adam Conover took to YouTube to publish a scathing 25-minute-long video essay addressing the AI hype cycle. Honestly? It goes hard.

Artificial Intelligence

Video Brutally Takes Down the AI Hype Wave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clearview AI, maker of AI-powered facial recognition software used widely by US cops, claims to have scraped 30 billion Facebook photos for AI training.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Company Scraped 30 Billion Facebook Photos So Cops Can Facial ID Anyone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New level of parasocial relationships just dropped: Swifties are using AI voice-generation tech as a way to bring Taylor Swift's voice to fake quotes.

Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Are Using AI to Make Taylor Swift Say Nice Things to Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Joe Biden is to meet with the scientific advisors today to discuss the "risks and opportunities" of artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence

President Biden Meeting With Advisers to Discuss Explosion in AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Goldman Sachs wants you to replace your costly human labor force with generative AI. Look on the bright side, though: huge savings.

Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Salivates at AI’s Potential to Mass Fire Workers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The CEO of OpenAI has admitted that he's afraid of the artificial intelligence his company is ushering in — but he doesn't think you should laugh about it.

OpenAI CEO: It’s Not Funny That I’m Afraid of the AI We’re Creating

By Noor Al-Sibai

A guy says he's growing a startup through ChatGPT's wisdom alone. But the company's website is seriously off — concerning, as he's accepting cash donations.

That Startup Run by ChatGPT Doesn’t Seem to Be Doing So Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI death march is apparently on its way to claiming another victim now that Levi's is, apparently, going to start outsourcing its model diversity to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Levi’s Mocked for Using AI to Generate “Diverse” Denim Models

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Company With Zero Revenue Raises $150 Million

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.

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VR Pioneer Warns That AI Could Drive Us All Insane

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People are using AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested by the NYPD before it actually happens, because that's the world we live in now.

Artificial Intelligence

People Keep Posting Phony AI-Generated Images of Trump Getting Arrested

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT was down last night due to a glitch that made chat histories publicly visible, while another bug may have also compromised user emails.

ChatGPT Bug Accidentally Revealed Users’ Chat Histories, Email Addresses, and Phone Numbers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Concerned about OpenAI and the implications of its powerful AI tech? Fair, but CEO Sam Altman says you should probably focus your worry on its competition.

OpenAI CEO Warns That Competitors Will Make AI That’s More Evil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A peer-review process accepted a research paper written entirely by OpenAI's ChatGPT — without ever realizing that an AI program penned the paper.

Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An app called CupidBots uses AI to automate swiping and flirting on various dating apps, and is specifically tailored to target women.

Artificial Intelligence

Meet CupidBot, the Horrifying Dating App Using AI to Harass Women

By Frank Landymore

We're not in favor of any jobs going solely to robots. But if any jobs should be automated, it should probably be those of the CEOs.

Artificial Intelligence

The Numbers Are In: Replacing All CEOs With AI Just Makes Sense

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The OpenAI-powered Bing AI chat feature is now open for general use. But it may or may not be a glitch on Microsoft's behalf.

Artificial Intelligence

Uh Oh: Bing’s Deranged AI Chat Is Now Open for Anyone to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With OpenAI's GPT-4, things "can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them," Lightning AI CEO William Falcon told Venture Beat.

Artificial Intelligence

AI CEO on GPT-4: This Can Get “Super-Dangerous Very Quickly”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.

Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI just revealed GPT-4, the next-gen version of its Large Language Model (LLM) tech. It seems impressive, but reportedly still has flaws.

OpenAI’s Next-Generation AI Is About to Demolish Its Competition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?

Artificial Intelligence

Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.

Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Those machine "hallucinations" that Large Language Models (LLM) are known for? According to one AI leader, they're just alternate realities, actually.

Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion CEO Suggests AI Is Peering Into Alternate Realities

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a report from CNBC, the Google-built Bard is a total and complete mess, and no one really seems to know what to actually do with the AI tech.

Chaos Inside Google as Execs Try to Figure Out How to Actually Use AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wondering if artificial intelligence (AI) will be taking your job? A fair question — and one that a group of professors may have just shed some light on.

Artificial Intelligence

These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.

Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

By Simon Spichak

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots.

Artificial Intelligence

Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI is for-profit, closed-source, and in bed with a legacy tech giant, despite its non-profit, closed-source roots. Can we trust them with building AGI?

OpenAI Seems Like a Very Sleazy Company to Be Creating World-Changing AGI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Good news for anyone who's already using ChatGPT to help them get dates: when you get to the altar, the chatbot will take care of your wedding vows, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Romantic! Wedding Startup Wants You to Write Your Vows with GPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nothing will make you feel more patriotic than this Twitter thread of mullet-headed US presidents, generated with the help of Midjourney's AI.

Artificial Intelligence

America Trembles as AI Generates Every US President With a Mullet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.

Artificial Intelligence

Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for.

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.

Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Spotify just announced that it will soon be leveraging OpenAI-made artificial intelligence users with an "AI DJ in your pocket."

Spotify Launching OpenAI-Powered “DJ” That Talks About Songs Between Tracks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just weeks after pressing pause on publishing AI-generated content, CNET owner Red Ventures appears poised to greenlight its AI program once again.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Owner Preparing to Restart Publishing AI-Generated Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

But according to a pair of experts, the frothy hype cycle surrounding chatbot AI systems is doomed to be what investors fear most: a bubble.

Artificial Intelligence

Economist Says AI Is a Doomed Bubble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.

Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Elon Musk Takes Aim at Microsoft as Bing AI Goes Off the Rails

By Victor Tangermann

OkCupid has already started to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into its online dating service, utilizing the tech to generate matchmaking prompts for its users.

OkCupid Using ChatGPT to Make Online Dating Even More Robotic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shocker: people aren't quite sure that they trust artificial intelligence to operate in their best interests, per a new poll.

Artificial Intelligence

Almost Three Quarters of Americans Distrust Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took time to address concerns over AI safety in an interview with CBS News, and he seems confident about keeping AIs reined in.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Pretty Sure He Can Keep AI From Escaping Human Control

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft appears to be aware of a hack to bring out a less controlled personality of OpenAI's ChatGPT, and it's discussing it.

Microsoft Is Apparently Discussing ChatGPT’s Bizarre Alternate Personality

By Victor Tangermann

French DJ and producer David Guetta recently treated festival-goers to a new track, featuring rapper Eminem. Just one thing: the feature was AI-generated.

Artificial Intelligence

David Guetta Faked Eminem’s Vocals Using AI for New Song

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is warning netizens to watch out for AI-generated content regarding "health, civic, or financial information." So, you know, the important things.

Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google now has a ten percent stake in Anthropic, the company behind a powerful AI chatbot called Claude. The AI arms race marches on.

Google Invests $300 Million in AI That Passed Law School Exam

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Former Facebook Exec Says AI Will Soon Simulate the Human Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is often wrong, and yet it's somehow always certain, even tending to double down on incorrect answers. Sound familiar?

ChatGPT Is Just an Automated Mansplaining Machine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré